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William Rivers Pitt

Managing Editor of truthout.org

2 articles

Exploit the Rift

by William Rivers Pitt

Caracas (Venezuela) | 26 May 2005

Members of the Republican Party’s political action corps pride themselves on discipline and adherence to the line. Most of the time they are very good at this, which explains to a degree their ascendancy of late. All of a sudden, however, that discipline has started to crack, and the outlines of (...)

The Prophecy of Oil

by William Rivers Pitt

Caracas (Venezuela) | 10 March 2005

On August 27, 1859, Edwin Drake’s oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania struck a gusher, making him the man credited with drilling the first commercially successful oil well in America. In the time between then and now, the world has burned through about 900 billion barrels of Drake’s discovery. (...)